“Go To” Diabetes Resources –
These are some of the internet sources and written sources that I use
and our support group uses. We always use these as a baseline for
our learning experience. They are also a baseline for us to improve
our diabetes management.
The First Year - Type 2 Diabetes,
New York, Marlow & Company, 312 pages, by Gretchen Becker.
I discovered this book within a month of diagnosis. It gave me
information that I was not receiving from my doctor. Gretchen has
type 2 diabetes and she gives the best definitions and reasons for
controlling diabetes in non-technical language. Look for the Second
Edition.
Most of our support group has read this
book, but some of the new members are now reading. Her blog on
Health Central is at http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/5068/
http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/
A good general discussion on many topics and often we use this as a
benchmark for making our decisions as the articles are generally in
compliance with the ADA guidelines. This is a starting point for us
to improve on.
http://www.mendosa.com/
We like to follow David's blogs and Health Central blogs and we
like using his site for some research. Some of his earliest articles
are only found here. His blog on Health Central is at
http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/
http://www.notmedicatedyet.com/
This was more popular when he was blogging five days per week and
is still good for helping people that want to get off and stay off
medications.
http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/
This is a great resource for testing and information for the newly
diagnosed. Later blogs are not as popular and he seldom blogs
lately.
http://www.battlediabetes.com/
For type 1 and type 2 diabetes - some of our group use this for
research and most of us read the information for type 2.
Other miscellaneous websites that some
of us follow for information: (All of our group follows some of them
and some are more popular than others).
We also have other sources that we read
and some variety as each person has his/her own interests. We do
correspond among ourselves when we have something that others might
have an interest in reading.
If you enjoy videos, then this by Dr.Anne Peters from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of
Southern California should interest you. Below the video are 21 more
videos, some are good and a couple could be better. Browse as you
have interest. You will have to listen to the advertisements to get to the videos.
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